I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.